From treasured moments to treasured objects, our existence is encapsulated by the search for treasures, or for things to treasure. The installation, "Treasure is Everywhere", speaks of the motive force within us all, the energy and enthusiasm which motivates us, and which can also spread to illuminate other things.

The video „La Familia“ is a South American genre painting in which divers generations are united. With its light heartedness the picturesque family album contrasts the inner conflicts and the violence of its society. The artist in her study reminds of Martin Chambi, the pioneer of the Peruvian photography. For more than half century his atelier is the meeting point for all classes of society – beginning from a bagger to a mayor. As much as Chambi Vassileva succeeds to build up a close personal relationship to her actors, like you could see it before by the West African photographers Seidpu Keita and Mama Casset. The medium of photography loses its typical coldness and creates a kind of complicity between the artist and the object. /Alfons Hug/

Sin piel

2009
Video, PAL

03:47 min

Pedrito
2009

Video, ntsc

03:00 min

Broken man

2009

Mirror work

Toro

2008

Video, PAL
05:00 min

The video shows a man fighting against the waves of the sea - in face of the huge sky and the wide of the sea, sometimes he abandons the fight, but then he comes back with new bravery: as a torero in the arena but also as Don Qichote against the windmills.

Die frau, die sich sieben mal gedreht hat
2007

Cast bronze

45,5 x 8,5 cm

Joey

2007

Gypsum, artificial hair, mixed media
165 cm high

Joey is a young woman standing upright, slim and with very long hair that veils large parts of her face and her body. Actually, one can only discern the nose, parts of mouth and forehead, the slender legs and the naked feet of the woman, the rest of her body is covered by her parted, chestnut brown hair. From the middle of the body, at about the area where the genital should be, the right thumb of the girl protrudes through the thick hair. It is gilded and it seems – at least at first sight – as if it wanted to imitate a phallus. This life-size sculpture appears like a general picture of the current situation in which the traditional but still existing images and conceptions concerning the relation between man and woman, art and science, as well as life and death have already dissolved.